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It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.

Billy Joel

I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
BILLY JOEL

Mets Thinking Type
I remember reading about how the decline of the steel industry had been affecting the Lehigh Valley, and I decided that’s what I was going to write the song about.
BILLY JOEL

About Affecting Going Remember Song Valley
The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
BILLY JOEL

Blue Commercial Country Rocks
Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
BILLY JOEL

Anyway One Songs
You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
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Home Phones Waiting
Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
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Doors Opening People
When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I’m a message guy, per se. I write about people. I like to write about human beings, not crap political rhetoric.
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Community People Writing
Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
BILLY JOEL

Knows Right Wrong
There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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Kindness People Reality
I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
BILLY JOEL

Knows Play Said
People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
BILLY JOEL

Believe Lying People
We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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Forever Gone Insanity
It’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
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Alright Loses Two
I’m single but interviewing.
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Interviewing Person Single
So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.
BILLY JOEL

Baby Faces Goodbye Hollywood Life Many Series
When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
BILLY JOEL

Musician Pursue Young

It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.

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It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.

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